Math and Science
AP Math Courses
AP Calculus AB
- AP Calculus AB is roughly equivalent to a first semester college calculus course devoted to topics in differential and integral calculus. The AP course covers topics in these areas, including concepts and skills of limits, derivatives, definite integrals, and the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. The course teaches students to approach calculus concepts and problems when they are represented graphically, numerically, analytically, and verbally, and to make connections amongst these representations. Students learn how to use technology to help solve problems, experiment, interpret results, and support conclusions.
- https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/ap/ap-course-overviews/ap-calculus-ab-course-overview.pdf
- All High Schools
AP Calculus BC
- AP Calculus BC is roughly equivalent to both first and second semester college calculus courses and extends the content learned in AB to different types of equations and introduces the topic of sequences and series. The AP course covers topics in differential and integral calculus, including concepts and skills of limits, derivatives, definite integrals, the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, and series. The course teaches students to approach calculus concepts and problems when they are represented graphically, numerically, analytically, and verbally, and to make connections amongst these representations. Students learn how to use technology to help solve problems, experiment, interpret results, and support conclusions.
- https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/ap/ap-course-overviews/ap-calculus-bc-course-overview.pdf
- JHS, NHS, RHS
AP Statistics
- The AP Statistics course is equivalent to a one-semester, introductory, non-calculus-based college course in statistics. The course introduces students to the major concepts and tools for collecting, analyzing, and drawing conclusions from data. There are four themes in the AP Statistics course: exploring data, sampling and experimentation, anticipating patterns, and statistical inference. Students use technology, investigations, problem solving, and writing as they build conceptual understanding.
- https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/ap/ap-course-overviews/ap-statistics-course-overview.pdf
- All High Schools
AP Science Courses
AP Biology
- AP Biology is an introductory college-level biology course. Students cultivate their understanding of biology through inquiry-based investigations as they explore the following topics: evolution, cellular processes — energy and communication, genetics, information transfer, ecology, and interactions.
- https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/ap/13b-7589-AP-Biology-ADA-v0.1.pdf
- DHS, NHS, RHS, SBHS, SWHS, WOHS
AP Chemistry
- The key concepts and related content that define the AP Chemistry course and exam are organized around underlying principles called the Big Ideas. They encompass core scientific principles, theories, and processes that cut across traditional boundaries and provide a broad way of thinking about the particulate nature of matter underlying the observations students make about the physical world.
- https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/ap/ap-course-overviews/ap-chemistry-course-overview.pdf
- NHS, SBHS, WOHS
AP Earth and Environmental Science
- The AP Environmental Science course is designed to be the equivalent of a one-semester, introductory college course in environmental science, through which students engage with the scientific principles, concepts, and methodologies required to understand the interrelationships of the natural world. The course requires that students identify and analyze natural and human-made environmental problems, evaluate the relative risks associated with these problems, and examine alternative solutions for resolving or preventing them. Environmental Science is interdisciplinary, embracing topics from geology, biology, environmental studies, environmental science, chemistry, and geography
- https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/ap/ap-course-overviews/ap-environmental-science-course-overview.pdf
- JHS, NHS, SBHS, SWHS
AP Physics
- AP Physics 1 is an algebra-based, introductory college-level physics course. Students cultivate their understanding of Physics through inquiry-based investigations as they explore topics such as Newtonian mechanics (including rotational motion); work, energy, and power; mechanical waves and sound; and introductory, simple circuits.
- https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/digitalServices/pdf/ap/ap_physics1_2page_course_overview.pdf
- NHS